Extract Url's from a String Using PHP

Extract URL's from a string using PHP

REGEX is the answer for your problem. Taking the Answer of Object Manipulator.. all it's missing is to exclude "commas", so you can try this code that excludes them and gives 3 separated URL's as output:

$string = "The text you want to filter goes here. http://google.com, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_m7NEDMrV0,https://instagram.com/hellow/";

preg_match_all('#\bhttps?://[^,\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^,[:punct:]\s]|/))#', $string, $match);

echo "<pre>";
print_r($match[0]); 
echo "</pre>";

and the output is

Array
(
    [0] => http://google.com
    [1] => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_m7NEDMrV0
    [2] => https://instagram.com/hellow/
)

PHP regex extract url with pattern from string

You can repeat all the allowed characters before and after matching /products/ using the same optional character class. As the character class is quite long, you could shorten the notation by wrapping it in a capture group and recurse the first subpattern as (?1)

Note that you don't have to escape the forward slash using a different separator.

$re = '`\b(?:(?:https?|ftp)://|www\.)([-a-z0-9+&@#/%?=~_|!:,.;]*)/products/(?1)[-a-z0-9+&@#/%=~_|]`';

$str = <<<EOF
  http://example.com/products/1/abc
  This string is valid - http://example.com/products/1
  This string is not valid - http://example.com/order/1
EOF;

preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches);
print_r($matches[0]);

Output

Array
(
    [0] => http://example.com/products/1/abc
    [1] => http://example.com/products/1
)

Extract URL from string

John Gruber has spent a fair amount of time perfecting the "one regex to rule them all" for link detection. Using preg_replace() as mentioned in the other answers, using the following regex should be one of the most accurate, if not the most accurate, method for detecting a link:

(?i)\b((?:[a-z][\w-]+:(?:/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))

If you only wanted to match HTTP/HTTPS:

(?i)\b((?:https?://|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))

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